Report: Kansas City is the 8th-worst metro for entrepreneur diversity

By Tommy Felts | September 1, 2016

It’s a dreary day for Kansas City in terms of successfully supporting a diverse entrepreneurial community. The City of Fountains is far below the national average — and the majority of the most-populated metros — when it comes to minority business ownership, according to the United States Census Bureau. The bureau on Thursday unveiled the…

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Women in entrepreneurship: How KC stacks up to other cities

By Tommy Felts | June 3, 2016

Late in 2015 and without much fanfare, the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012 Survey of Business Owners. The survey is taken every five years and polls more than 1.75 million enterprises, gathering, compiling and releasing the results in a process spanning several years. The survey is the only regularly-collected source of economic and demographic…

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Entrepreneurial lessons from the girls of Malawi, Africa

By Tommy Felts | April 29, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.   While the Kansas City entrepreneurial community continued to percolate in April, I spent two and a half weeks in the poorest country in Africa. Malawi is known as “The Warm Heart of Africa,” and with an average annual income of $255 per…

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